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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Sport
Dan Woike

Their shining moment quickly faded. The story of the 1980 All-Star Game starting pitchers.

LOS ANGELES — The way the clouds never formed in an ocean blue sky, the way the afternoon sun hit the San Gabriel Mountains, the way one of baseball's truest cathedrals was dropped right into the center of it — this was Dodger Stadium at its heavenliest.

"It was a postcard," Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey said.

More than 36 million people — roughly one in every six Americans — received that postcard when they watched the 1980 All-Star Game on TV. Another 56,088 were in the stands.

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